Tech thoughts by Bhavani

Month: April 2012

A simple application was developed, which displays map between two cities on BREW MP. The UI has two text fields To and From, where source and destination are entered. Upon pressing the SELECT key, the application loads the map between two cities. Along with the basic UI, a surface media widget was initialized and associated… Read More Displaying map between two cities on BREW MP

Servers play a major role in the world wide web. For every single page that is viewed on the browser,a connection is established to a server located elsewhere in the world and the HTML page is downloaded from it. Sometimes, it becomes highly critical to maintain servers and run projects on them. The present post… Read More Simple steps to configure our own web-server on Linux

Parallel builds play a significant role for building projects that require huge RAM to compile. The best example is chromium build. Suppose the chrome is built by make chrome at the end, we have linker errors. collect2: ld terminated with signal 6 Aborted terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::bad_alloc’ Building the code by the… Read More Significance of parallel builds

The error given below is a very common while creating a patch in webkit. Added: svn:executable ## -0,0 +1 ## +* Root cause of the error: The error is seen as a part of the patch created. This error is usually seen when a new file such as test case needs to be added to… Read More svn executable error while creating a patch in webkit

In the current post, I would like to give the details of the layout process of HTML inline elements in WebKit. What are inline elements?? An inline element is an element that defines text or data in the document like STRONG makes the enclosed text strongly emphasized. They don’t start new lines when you use… Read More Layout of Inline elements in webkit.

Can we write an application that runs across various mobile phone platforms like Android, Iphone, Blackberry, WebOS etc? A web-based framework makes this a reality. A multiple phone web-based application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of phone applications that are written as embedded dynamic websites(using HTML,css and Javascript)… Read More Mobile Web Application Development